Word: bomb
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...throughout Life Won't Wait, crooning, "have you ever been looked at by your past and it will never let you go." You get the impression that the members of Rancid weren't perfectly aware of what they were getting into by releasing the modern rock smashes "Salvation," "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho." Playing into the system isn't a respectable gesture in theunderground punk scene where the band was born:"Backslide" is the retrospective self-analysis inRancidspeak to explain the misgivings away...
Rejectionists are taking their second shot at Northern Ireland's peace agreement today after having failed to stop it in May's referendum. Dissident Republicans signaled their intentions yesterday by detonating a car bomb near a police station in Newtownhamilton, but anti-agreement Unionists are relying on the ballot rather than the bullet. Protestant hardliners led by Reverend Ian Paisley hope they can win enough seats in today's election for the new Northern Ireland Assembly to gum up the works. "They say they're out to defend the Union," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "But that...
...will not work--indeed, both countries had already weighed this consequence before recklessly pressing ahead with their nuclear preparations. What is needed to bring India and Pakistan to their senses is the threat of a multinational action that could end in a pre-emptive military strike against their nuclear-bomb making facilities. That would save us all from having nuclear war erupt over the Kashmir issue or some other jingoistic dispute. Fortunately, the threat of force made Iraq's Saddam Hussein back down. PAUL BEAUMONT Bangkok...
Members of the nuclear club will not waste their arsenals on countries that do not possess the Bomb. In the fullness of time, they may blow one another out of existence and leave the world to those who have renounced such insanity. JAMES BATTERSHILL Hamber Place...
...find the warmest greeting. Jordan, whose KING HUSSEIN pressured Israel into freeing Yassin, twice refused him entry. According to a senior Jordanian official, Hussein, who has for years tolerated a high-profile Hamas office in Amman, is weary of the group, which has waged a series of deadly bomb attacks in Israel. Yassin's fiery speeches on the road, calling for the destruction of Israel, were not appreciated by Hussein, who signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Says the Jordanian official: "The King no longer wants it thought that the leadership of Hamas is in Jordan...